Bella Lamounier: Hehe! Thanks for reviewing again! And yes I have a lot of stories to recommend to you. All of them are on my favourites list. Haha, I have a lot. But I'm running out of good SasuSaku fictions to read! Nooo!
Kawaii-Hisui: Damn…why didn't I think of Barney…WAHHH! Ah well, I can't turn back time now. –grumble- I lub Barney! I still have a plushie of him in my room. So huggable… -sigh-
pei-chan: I know eh? The reason why the people cut out the bloody horror's because parent's don't want their little kids to see all that violence. But hey before the show starts there's a warning right? If you don't want your kids to see vioilence go read the freakin warning cause it's there for a reason. Haha I hate how they translated "Datte Bayou" to "Believe it" –shudder-
Xtreme Nuisance: I didn't catch that..Haha, I need to be more careful. And I totally suck at math so please forgive me. Whoever created math should die! Even though they're already dead...die again!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto so blah.
Aren't You too Old for Halloween? Part III
Recap
The man cried out in surprise fell on the floor and started to roll around on the floor holding onto where Tenten had kicked. Pants and groans of "troublesome" "stupid Tenten" and "bad idea" was heard.
Ino had run over to Tenten and was now on the floor hugging her knees in shock and fear.
A vein was popping in Tenten's head. Okay well no a vein but 10 veins no 20 no a billion veins! She recognized that voice now.
"Shi-ka-ma-ru." she said with a deadly aura around her.
Naruto and Hinata were shocked. Both of them shut their eyes immediately. The sudden brightness was hurting their eyes. Slowly they opened their eyes getting used to the light. When their vision finally cleared they looked at the man with the chainsaw. He had a mask on so they couldn't tell who it was but his hair was long. Almost as along as Neji's…wait a minute! His hair was just like Neji's!
"Hey! My arm's okay!"
"Ne-Neji?" Hinata asked stuttering.
"Crap."
"Sa-Sasuke-kun?" she whispered. Her face was now regaining its natural colour. Fear was leaving her body and was being replaced by safety.
Sakura immediately latched herself in Sasuke's arms with her arms around his neck. Both of them fell to the floor with her on top of him. She buried her face into his chest as she cried.
Reluctantly, the three boys pulled out a slip of paper with words on it that would make them shrivel up in horror. Slowly and with eyes tightly shut, they opened the slip of paper.
"Tinkerbelle…" muttered Neji angrily and also with embarrassment.
"Bambi's mom…" said Shikamaru quietly.
"Sa-Sasuke-kun! Your going to be a…"
"Bunny rabbit?" shouted the rest of the people.
"Open the curtains! The show is starting!"
Okay, so the draw was kind of rigged so the guys would choose those things. But hey they deserved it right? The girls just hoped they wouldn't find out.
"There's no way in hell I'm going to be a bunny rabbit." hissed Sasuke, absolutely hating the words bunny and rabbit at the moment.
"Aw come on! It can't be that bad!" pouted Sakura.
All of them were currently at Ino's house preparing and making the costumes for the guys. The girls had already got theirs. They wouldn't show it to the guys when they asked to see it. Even if they knew what each of them was going to be, there's no way in hell they would show them what they're wearing that day. It'd spoil the fun!
All of them were in Ino's spacious room. Two of the boys, Shikamaru and Neji, were standing while Tenten and Hinata measured their arms, waist, etc.
"Neji!" complained Tenten. "Hold still! This is really hard for me to do if you keep fidgeting!"
Neji glared at her. Stupid Shikamaru. Stupid prank. Stupid costume.
Tenten was growing impatient with her boyfriend. It's hard pinning the pieces of cloth together if the person is moving! An idea just hit her.
"Neji, if you get pricked by the pins it's not going to be my fault." she warned.
"Whatever." he scowled.
Tenten rolled her eyes and…
"OW DAMMIT!"
"See, it's not my fault it's yours." she said smirking.
"You did that on purpose." he hissed.
"Oh whatever do you mean?" Tenten asked innocently, but on the inside she was howling with laughter.
Serves you right!
A few meters away from Neji and Tenten, Hinata and Ino was busy putting Shikamaru's costume together.
"Okay, so we'll sew that in place there, arms go here…" said Hinata.
"How long will this be finished?" groaned Shikamaru.
"Oh stop your complaining." snapped Ino. "It's your own fault you're in this position."
"Shikamaru, just give us a few moreminutes and we'll be done with you. Your costume is pretty easy anyways." Hinata smiled.
"Tch, how troublesome."
"Okay we're done with you for now Shikamaru." said Ino. "But we'll need you again later."
"Whatever."
Hinata was now sitting down at the sewing machine. She began to put together the pieces of cloth until…
"Uh oh…"
"What is it Hinata-chan?" asked Ino.
"T-the machine jammed!"
"Stupid piece of junk. It always does that. Hold on let me go at it." Ino smashed her fist against the sewing machine, tugged at the cloth a little and…
"There! It works!"
"Thank you Ino-chan!" smiled Hinata.
"No prob-"
Ino was cut off with loud shouts and screams.
"I am not going out like this!" roared an oh-so familiar voice.
"Aw come on teme! It's not that bad!"
"Naruto's right. It looks cute!"
"No! And that's final!"
There were loud noises and grunts. Then the door swung open violently.
"Both of you owe me for this." grumbled Sasuke.
The girls turned their heads and the boys were snickering to themselves.
"Ah! Kawaii!" squealed Ino and Tenten.
Sasuke was in a pink and white bunny suit. The chest was ovally and white. His paws and the inside of the bunny ears were white as well and the left one was perked up and the right one was perked up as well but the tip was flopped down. The rest was a baby pink. Sasuke was scowling and muttering obscenities.
"I can't wait until the carnival." snickered Shikamaru.
"When do we get dressed up anyways?" asked Tenten.
"On Halloween day." replied Neji. "The maze is only open on Halloween day."
"This is going to ruin your image Uchiha."
"Shut it Hyuuga."
Neji smirked.
"Hey Sasuke, turn around." said Ino.
"Why." he asked eyes narrowing.
"Oh just turn around."
"Fine."
"Hey…where's his tail…"
"Sasuke aren't you suppose to have a tail?"
"Yeah, like those round fluffy ones."
His eyes widened. "I'm suppose to have a tail?"
"Ah, I forgot! Naruto can you get the tail?"
"Sure Sakura-chan!"
Naruto quickly dashed out of the room, returning a few seconds later.
"Here!"
"Thank you Naruto!"
The tail was round and fluffy with fluff sticking around its sides.
"No way are you putting that on me!" roared Sasuke.
"But Sasuke-kun! A rabbit needs a tail!"
"Well this one won't have one!"
"Aww come on Sasuke-kun. Your costume needs the tail!"
"No!"
"Please?"
"No!"
"Please!"
"I said NO!"
Sakura knew this was going to happen. She smirked to herself.
Time to release my secret weapon.
Sakura made her cutest puppy dog face and made her eyes look shiny as if she was on the verge of tears.
"Please Sasuke-kun. Please?"
Sasuke's eyebrow twitched.
Her and that stupid face. Dammit. But it's really cute…
Sasuke fought down the urge to blush at her cuteness.
"Fine." he muttered.
"Yay!" cheered Sakura smiling widely now.
"Anyone who can't give into Sakura's puppy face doesn't have a heart." whispered Hinata to the others. They nodded.
"Okay, hold still!" Sakura bent down and started to sew in the cute little fluff ball of a tail.
"Are you done yet?"
"Just about!"
"Jeez…"
"There! Sasuke's costume is finished!"
Sakura beamed. She just loved to make costumes.
"Sakura I think he's missing something." said Naruto inspecting Sasuke head to toe.
"What's he missing?"
A light bulb appeared over Ino's head. Quickly, she dashed over to her desk and opened the drawer pulling out a large bell threaded through a red ribbon.
"G-good idea Ino-chan! We can tie it around Sasuke's neck!"
"No way! First the tail and now this?"
"It's the last thing! We promise!" said Tenten.
"Come on! It makes you look cuter!"
Neji and Shikamaru smirked.
"No way in hell are you going to make me wear that!"
"Watch us." smirked Naruto. All of them were now circling around Sasuke closing in on him.
"This is so not fair! 7 against 1!"
"That's just too bad." grinned Neji.
"ARGGG!"
Screams, shouts, and yelling could be heard. Followed by crashes, bangs, and thumps.
"Nooooooo!" screamed Sasuke.
Monday night rolls around…
"Everything ready?"
"Yup."
"The guys here yet?"
"They're in the other room with Sakura and Hinata."
"Thank god we convinced them to come over here first or else they would never wear those things." laughed Tenten.
"This is so embarrassing." came a muffled Sasuke's voice.
"Oh stop your complaining teme."
"Dobe, you're not the one dressed as a freakin bunny!"
"You got a point there."
"This is really troublesome."
"Hn." came Neji.
"All of you shut-up and let's go!"
"Hai, hai Sakura-chan!"
They all emerged from Ino's guestroom. (I suck at descriptions so forgive me!)
Sakura was dressed in mostly black. She was of course the evil witch in Sleeping Beauty. Her dress reached the floor and it flared out a little from the hips. She held a long staff with a green glass ball on top. A dragon was wrapped around the ball. A cape was also on Sakura's back and it was the only not black thing, it was a dark shade of purple. Eyeliner and mascara was the finishing touch to her costume.
Naruto was wearing green…all green. He wore a green tailed suit (Like those suit things with the long part of the coat and at the end of the tail there's like two slits or something like that.), and green pants. Naruto had a tall green hat on (Like the one the mad hatter wore in Alice in Wonderland.) his head with a few rips at the sides and what looked like patches of green cloth. On his face was some Halloween make-up to make him look scary, as he would be in the maze scaring people.
The other girls squealed in delight when they saw Hinata. She looked so cute. Hinata was in a mouse suit that had a couple different shades of brown on it. Dark brown for the main body and a lightish brown for the paws, chest/stomach area, and inside the ears. She was holding onto the tail that was connected to her backside. She had a black nose with 3 black whiskers painted on each cheek.
Neji came out after Hinata. He was starting to go red from embarrassment. Or maybe it was from fury. Who knows. He was in light greens, whites, and even some pale shades of whitish pinks. He had a skirt (Oh my god! A skirt!) that went up to his knees. At first Tenten wanted to make it that it reached his finger tips, but Neji insisted that it were to be up to his knees. Underneath the skirt were shorts. He did not want to be just in a skirt and boxers underneath. The top was (I really don't remember what Tinkerbelle had on so…this is going to be made upish.) long sleeved at one arm and on the other was sleeveless. On his back were white silk wings that were stretched over coat hangers shaped into wings.
After Neji came Sasuke. Slowly trudging out scowling until Shikamaru shoved him out all the way saying, "Move it you ass, your blocking the way."
Well, we've already discussed Sasuke's costume. So let's get to his facial expressions. Frown, death glare, scowl, death glare…it goes on. But it was mostly death glare. He was hating the stupid bell tied around his neck.
DIE you damn bell! D-I-E DIE!
Err…yes…Sasuke has murderous intentions for the poor innocent bell. On with Shikamaru!
Shikamaru was also in brown but it was in only in one shade. He also had a bit of black. His hands and feet or hooves were black and the rest of his body was a dark brown. His ears were at the top of his head perked up.
"Where are his antlers?" asked Tenten.
"He's Bambi's mom remember?" said Ino.
"Oh yeah."
"Okay, now that you guys are dressed up it's our turn!" grinned Tenten.
"Well be out in about 15 minutes!" said Ino as she walked to the guestroom.
15 minutes rolls around…
"Tah dah!" beamed Ino as she and Tenten walked out of the room.
Ino had on a blue and white checkered dress ripped and torn in places. (Remember she's supposed to be scary. So ripped and torn things are part of the costume.) It was short sleeved and she had a white apron looking thing over her dress. Ino's hair was now in two braids. One braid on each side of her head. On her feet she wore red heels and they clicked every time she walked. Like Sakura she had on eyeliner and mascara but also fake blood smeared on the corners of her mouth and on her forehead.
To Shikamaru she was simply breath taking. Of course he would never admit that to her.
Tenten wore a white poofy sleeveless dress. The dress reached the floor and she wore white heels as she couldn't fine any clear heels. Her hair was let down making her look even cuter than she already was. A white ribbon held her bangs back. (Like Sakura and the red ribbon she used to wear except there isn't a giant bow at the top of her head.) Her dress was also a bit torn at places. She also look a bit disheveled.
"Okay! Let's get going!"
"Yay!"
"Alright!"
"This is going to be so much fun!"
"So who drove here?" asked Ino.
"Sasuke-kun did." said Sakura. She and Sasuke arrived at Ino's house together in his black Audi (Is that the spelling of the car name?).
"Did Tenten drive?" asked Shikamaru calmly.
"Nope!" piped upthe cheerful Tenten.
All of them sighed in relief.
"Eh? What's wrong? Why are you guys relieved?" Sakura asked confused.
"Yeah! And what's wrong with my driving!"
"Do you really want to know?" Shikamaru questioned.
Tenten and Sakura nodded.
"The last time you drove a car. You drove straight into the garage." said Neji.
"Neji! You're supposed to be on my side!" whined Tenten.
Neji shrugged. Tenten scowled.
"That was an accident! I couldn't find the brakes!"
"It's right next to the gas pedal!"
"There was also this one time, Tenten nearly ran over some old lady." explained Ino.
"Haha! The old lady was so scared! She practically fainted onto the floor!" laughed Naruto.
"You were lucky she didn't sue." Hinata said.
"Guys enough talk. Let's get going." came Sasuke's voice.
"Okay, okay. So who else drove?" Ino asked.
Shikamaru raised his hand.
"Okay. So Naruto, Sakura, Tenten and me will go in Shikamaru's car. Hinata and Neji will go in Sasuke's."
"Hai." they all chorused.
In a matter of moments, they were all now walking out of Ino's home.
"Sasuke-kun, stop scowling! It ruins your cuteness!" smiled Sakura.
"Whatever."
"Aw come on!"
"I didn't know you thought I was cute Sakura." he said.
"W-what! I-I no! I didn't-" Sakura was stuttering for words. Clearly she was blushing hotly. Sasuke found it pretty cute.
"You look beautiful tonight Sakura."
She stopped walking.
"W-what?"
"I said you look beautiful." Sakura swore she saw a blush coming out of him. But wasn't sure because hell he sure hid that quickly.
Sasuke was now next to his car getting in and smirked at her. Sakura wasstill blushing madly and shocked at what he just said to her.
He thinks I look beautiful…
"Sa-ku-ra!" yelled Ino.
"Hurry up! We're going to be late!"
"Huh?" Sakura snapped out of her dazed state and looked at Ino and shouted, "Oh! Coming!"
After arriving at the school they split up. Sasuke and Sakura would be outside handling the tickets and money. Tenten and Neji would be handling the lines as there would be a lot of people coming. Shikamaru, Hinata, Naruto and Ino would be inside the maze scaring and following people. There would also be other people helping out with the scaring with the maze.
"Looks like it started." muttered Sasuke.
Sakura started to giggle.
"What's so funny." asked Sasuke curiously.
"Nothing." Sakura said trying to hide her grin.
"Spit it out."
"It's nothing."
"Sakura, just spit it out."
"Fine."
Sasuke smirked. He won.
"Well what is it."
"I was just thinking how your fan club would take you in a bunny suit."
Sasuke's blood ran cold.
"Oh crap…" He hadn't thought of his fan club. Dammit, if they saw him like this there would be pictures. A lot of pictures! Plus pictures in the yearbook! This is so degrading.
"Oh my god…" stuttered Sakura as her eyes widened.
Speaking of fan clubs, Sasuke's was now stampeding towards the haunted maze.
"I just hope Neji and Tenten hold out!"
With Neji and Tenten…
"Neji…do you hear that?"
"Hear what?" he asked opening one of his closed eyes.
"Something like rumbling."
"No." he stated calmly.
"I swear I heard it."
"It's probably just your imagination."
"I guess so…"
Silence engulfed them both when their conversation ended. But that silence wasn't about to last long…
"Neji, open your eyes!"
"What is it this time."
"Just look idiot!"
Neji slowly opened his eyes and saw a whole bunch of girls screaming "Sasuke-kun!" running towards them leaving a trail of dust behind.
"Oh-boy." muttered Tenten.
"This is going to be a long night." Neji said echoing her thoughts.
With Sakura and Sasuke…
"Sasuke-kun!" screamed his rampaging fan girls.
Sakura was already rolling around on the floor laughing. The look on Sasuke's face. Pictures being taken of him in the suit. It was absolutely priceless.
Maybe this will be god for blackmail someday…Hahaha
"Sasuke-kun! You look so kawaii tonight!" one of them squealed.
"Oh Sasuke-kun! Will you take a picture with me!" shouted another.
"Sasuke-kun! Do you want to go out afterwards!" screamed a few others.
"Sa-ku-ra, help me!" he hissed between clenched teeth.
"But I'm having so much fun!" she pouted.
"Just help me!" he said exasperated.
"Fine, fine."
Sakura cleared her throat and shouted to the fan girls.
"This is a place of business. if you want Sasuke here, I suggest you try another time. Maybe tomorrow when he's free."
"That wasn't helping you know." he hissed at her.
"Yeah well. It's fun doing this to you." she laughed.
The fan girls abruptly quieted down.
"Okay, so are any of you going to go in?"
After about an hour people started to pile up at the haunted maze. Screams, evil laughter and child's music could be heard from the outside as it was very loud. It was dark in the gym. Pitch black you could say except there was a light flashing on and off quickly making everything so hard to see clearly. (Like those lights where it flashes really fast and when you move around it looks really slow. It's usually plain light. And like it gives you seisures haha.) The music inside made everything so eerie, the blood on the walls looked as if it was a house of murder.
The scarers inside the maze were having so much fun. Ino followed unsuspecting victims around until they noticed and started to scream and run through the maze. Which didn't help at all because as they started to run, rabbit heads would fall around them.
Naruto and Hinata would look like mannequins sitting there motionless pretending to have tea cups in there hands in mid air as if drinking. When people got close they would jump out at them making the people shriek in fear.
Shikamaru looked like a dead dear hanging on the wall. As people got nearer to him he would start to make strange gurgling noises and would start squirming and struggling. Other scarers in the maze were dressed up as other childhood characters and would jump out at people around corners or would stick there arms out of the windows and grab peoples arms, legs, or just poke them.
After about two hours of scaring, managing lines and following people the eight of them met at the entrance.
"Our shift for tonight's over!" shouted Naruto with joy.
"That was fun!" piped up Hinata.
"God, I really hate those fan girls." groaned Tenten.
"They nearly trampled us to death." added Neji.
"Those ditzes are so easy to scare!" laughed Ino.
All of them joined Ino in laughter.
"So what do we do now?" Sakura asked curiously.
All of them thought for a second.
"I know!" yelled Naruto. All of them winced at Naruto's yelling.
"You don't have to be so loud dobe." muttered Sasuke.
"Let's go trick-or-treating!"
They all sweat dropped.
"Aren't we a bit to old to get candy?" asked Tenten.
"It's too troublesome."
Naruto gasped in mock horror.
"Too old? Too troublesome? You are never too old to go trick-or-treating! And it's not too troublesome either!"
They all shrugged.
"Well we've got nothing else better to do anyways."
After a few moments of talking, all agreed on Naruto's idea.
"Let's get to Ino's house first. We need to get bags." said Neji.
"Good idea."
"Yosha!" Naruto shouted happily. "Let's go!"
"Naruto stop being so loud!"
"Your making us go deaf."
"Heh, sorry." he grinned sheepishly.
First stop! Ino's neighbor!
Naruto ran up the steps and ran the doorbell. A man in his mid-thirties answered the door. Naruto and the others, minus the other three guys, shouted, "Trick-or-treat!".
"Eh? Aren't you guys a little too old for Halloween?"
Naruto looked at the man shocked. Then shouted out, "What! You are never too old for Halloween!"
The man laughed and gave them all some candy.
They all continued to do this until their bags got fairly heavy and called it quits.
"Come onguys, it's getting late, the bags are heavy, plus I'm tired." yawned Sakura. The others agreed with her and headed back to Ino's.
"Come on we'll drive you guys home." said Sasuke. Shikamaru nodded.
Sakura, Hinata, and Neji rode in Sasuke's car and Tenten, and Naruto rode in Shikamaru's.
One by one they were all dropped off at their own house. All but one was left. That one was Sakura. During the ride back to her house was a quiet one. She was too tired to say a word to Sasuke. Besides, Sasuke didn't seem to want to talk anyways.
"Sakura…we're here." Sasuke said.
"Sakura…?"
He peered at the girl and found that she was asleep. Sighing he got out of the car, opened the passenger door, and carried her bridal style to her front door, careful not to wake her up.
After a few minutes of trying to find her key he unlocked the door. Swinging the door open he found the house was dark and empty.
Her parents must be out...
Slowly her trudged up the stairs to her room. He unmade (Is that a word? Lol) her bed and placed her on the bed gently and then covered her with the blankets. Sakura moaned and snuggled into the warmth that was now wrapped around her.
"Sasuke-kun..." she whispered. His eyes widened a bit then went back to normal.
She said my name in her sleep...does she dream about me?
He leaned down to her sleeping form and gently kissed her forehead not knowing why he did it. Sakura smiled.
"Good night Sakura..." he whispered.
Ah! Gomen, gomen for the extremely late update! Please don't kill me! I was so busy with work. I had a gazillion tests to study for plus a group project thingy. It's so overwhelming! High school sucks sometimes...Ah! My friend drew me a picture of Itachi...YAY I love him. Plus she drew chibis for me too. Aww I love ehr to death. Thank yew Maggie!
Yay, volley ball tomorrow in gym! My favourite, then after that I think it's rock climbing! I love my gym teacher...-sigh- Well anyways, I feel bad for the people that work as scarers in those haunted houses.I mean when people get scared their natural reflex is to go into self defense right? They must get hit and punched a lot...
Since my mid-terms are coming up soon, there might not be another update until December. I'm really sorry! I'll try my best to squeeze in a chapter though. Oh and for my other fic, My SoCalled Perfect Life, I decided to make it a monthly update. Not weekly. So I'll put in a new chapter for that probably this week.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter!
